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SquarRin. The Figwort, Scrophularia (Wilts). 
See SCARYBAEUS. 
SQUEAKERS. Water Figwort, Scrophularia 
aquatica (Axminster district). See FIDDLEs. 
SQUEEZE-JAWS. Yellow Toadflax, Linaria 
vulgaris (Kilton). 
SQUINANCY-WORT. A common English name 
for the Small Woodruff Asperula cynan chica ; 
common in the northern part of Somerset. 
Sometimes called QuINSY WorrT in consequence 
of its former use in disorders of the throat, 
SquirTERS. The Snow-berry, Symphoricarpus 
racemosus (a Long Sutton school-girl), 
SquitcH. Couch-grass, Agropyron repens 
(Edington). See QUITCH. 
STAGGER WORT or STAVER-WorRT. The 
Common Ragwort, Senecio Jacobea. [| am 
indebted to Mr. T. W. Cowan for the 
following quotation from Gerard’s Herball, 
p219 (1579) :—‘‘ This plant is called in Latine 
Herba S. Jacobi, or S. Jacobi flor, and Jacobea ; 
in French Fleur de S. Jacque; in English 8S. 
James his woort; the country people do call it 
Stagger woort and Stauerwoort, and also Ragwoorte.’? 
Stac’s Horn Moss. Common Club Moss, 
Lycopodium clavatum. It grows plentifully on 
Dunkery and many other of our hills. 
STAINLESS Bay. Several school-girls at South 
Petherton give me this as a local name for the 
Laurel, Laurus nobilis. 
STANDING GuSSETS. Early Purple Orchis, 
Orchis mascula (Axbridge). 
Star. (1) Several school-children at Otter- 
hampton give me this as a local name for the 
Daisy, Bellis perennis. 
(2) Greater Stitchwort, Stellaria Holostea (N.W. 
Wilts). 
STARCH-wWoRT. Wild Arum or Cuckoo-pint, 
Arum maculatum, from its tubers yielding the 
finest starch for the large collars worn in Queen 
Elizabeth’s reign. 
STAR-FLOWER. A name applied to a number 
of different flowers which have their petals 
arranged more or less in the shape of the con- 
ventional ‘‘ star.” 
(1) Frequently applied to members of the 
Stitchwort and Chickweed family, the genus 
Stellaria, of which the scientific’ name means 
** starlike.”’ 
(2) To members of the Aster family, including 
the Michaelmas Daisy. The generic name Aster 
means ‘‘a star,’ and members of the family are 
often called STARWORTs. 2 
(3) Several of my correspondents apply the 
name to the Lesser Celandine, Ranunculus Ficaria. 
